The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) (UK)

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) Paperback – 4 Mar. 1999 by Richard Dawkins (Author), Daniel Dennett (Contributor), UK.

By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene

'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.'

Science

'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort'

John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books

'Dawkins is quite incapable of being boring this characteristically brilliant and stimulating book is original and provocative throughout, and immensely enjoyable.'

G. A. Parker, Heredity

'The extended phenotype is certainly a big idea and it is pressed hard in dramatic language.'

Sydney Brenner, Nature

'Richard Dawkins, our most radical Darwinian thinker, is also our best science writer.'

Douglas Adams

'Dawkins is a superb communicator. His books are some of the best books ever written on science.'

Megan Tressider, Guardian

'Dawkins is a genius of science popularization.'

Mark Ridley, The Times

Product details

• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 196 x 19mm | 237g
• Publication date 04 Mar 1999
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition Statement Revised ed.
• Illustrations note reference, glossary, index
• ISBN10 0192880519
• ISBN13 9780192880512